A man who had just become chief of the campus police at the university where I worked was someone I really liked and admired. Only on the job a few days. He went on a trip and came back and suddenly committed suicide by gunshot.
Someone at work speculated that something terrible was said to him-—maybe blackmail, who knows?-—that he just couldn’t face.
I had never heard of it before but the coworker told me a successful suicide by gunshot should be by “eating the gun” shooting into the mouth. Many other angles lead to the person being mostly dead in surgery and facing pain and disability later. He didn’t think under the chin or against the temple were foolproof.
I hadn’t watched modern TV until last year since maybe 1990 so didn’t know many cop shows have that “eating the gun.”
So how does a person fire the second shot? Grazed and shaky from the near miss and then the coup de grace?
Well, if “they” say so. He is dead and nothing will stop the pain caused by this seemingly senseless murder of their loved ones. Prayers and condolences for all who mourn their loss. RIP.